{"id":40686,"date":"2017-11-03T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40686"},"modified":"2017-11-02T09:51:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T13:51:42","slug":"egyptian-lawyer-discovers-a-duty-to-rape-women-who-wear-revealing-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/03\/egyptian-lawyer-discovers-a-duty-to-rape-women-who-wear-revealing-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian lawyer discovers a &#8220;duty to rape&#8221; women who wear revealing clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be just a vivid fantasy on western university campuses, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/egyptian-lawyer-says-its-national-duty-rape-women-who-wear-revealing-clothes-1645578\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rape culture is real &#8230; in Egypt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Egyptian lawyer has sparked a controversy by saying that it is a &#8220;national duty&#8221; to rape women who wear revealing clothes. During a heated television debate on prostitution aired on a local television channel, the lawyer said it would be a &#8220;patriotic duty&#8221; of citizens to sexually harass such women.<\/p>\n<p>Nabih al-Wahsh, a locally popular lawyer with strong conservative views, was among several guests who were debating a new draft law on prostitution broadcast on the Egyptian television channel, al-Assema. When the panel&#8217;s debates became more heated, Wahsh, at one point insisted that females wearing revealing clothes deserve to be punished.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Would you accept a girl walking around with half of her thigh showing?&#8221; he shouted at a fellow panellist before quickly adding: &#8220;I say when a girl is walking around like that, harassing her is a patriotic duty, and raping her is a national duty.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be just a vivid fantasy on western university campuses, but rape culture is real &#8230; in Egypt: An Egyptian lawyer has sparked a controversy by saying that it is a &#8220;national duty&#8221; to rape women who wear revealing clothes. During a heated television debate on prostitution aired on a local television channel, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,370,11],"tags":[588,47,529,303,43],"class_list":["post-40686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-middle-east","category-religion","tag-egypt","tag-islam","tag-lawyers","tag-sexism","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aAe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40687,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40686\/revisions\/40687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}